agency that supports millions of palestinian refugees it's accuse the united nations relief and works agency of being irredeemably flawed the palestinian leadership is calling it a flagrant assault on its people are a force that has more from allah in the occupied west bank. just this week in the face of its funding crisis on row was celebrating the start of the academic year at the reopening of its schools girls arriving for class in the jealous on refugee camp in the occupied west bank welcomed by the agency's chief on raw has been scrambling all year to drum up the money to maintain its services after the us withheld more than three hundred million dollars in funding now comes confirmation that those cuts permanent the u.s. state department saying the fundamental business model in fiscal practices that have marked an ra for years tied to an endless leant exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries is simply unsustainable the united states will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation for the

palestinian leadership the decision is not about the specifics of a un agency rather an attack on the palestinian cause the us may argue that it's tax payers money and there are free to do whatever they want to do with it yes but will give them the right garber of the stealing of my land my future my spirit and my hopes my capital maxim was my only subject her church they have no right whatsoever the palestinians the final status of the more than five million refugees who assert a right of return to present day israel is like the status of jerusalem an issue to be settled by to go see a sion not by a preemptive u.s. position that position is referred to at least in the language used in the us statement when it talks about the exponentially expanding number of people who rely on raw that suggest this isn't just a move against one specific agency but also against the continued refugee status of

millions of people. for the sufi family home is the village of beit in the balance now in israel not the jailer's own refugee camp where most of them were born and raised. relation with what can i do if i go back on my own a car to tend the land i want my children there before me we want them where the future is less and their children that have been used for a sufi house seventy grandchildren and great grandchildren among israeli jews there is all but political consensus that allowing all such families to return would destroy the jewish character of the state but there's also concern not least reported within the israeli security establishment about the effects of killing off their main provider of aid in order to disrupt the politics but i think people are asking whether what we're seeing is the political instrumental isolation of aid and what you say is the wrong ability and the needs of the people are simply too great in the short term un role will continue to seek ways to plug its funding gap

germany among the first donor nations to promise extra money warning of an uncontrollable chain reaction if we're forced to shutdown our aforesaid. refugee camp in the occupied west bank. the u.s. military says it's decided to cut three hundred million dollars of aid to pakistan the money had been suspended by washington which has accuse islamic but of failing to take decisive action against armed groups in the region we can now speak to rob reynolds who joins me from washington d.c. for more details rob what's the pentagon saying. well to view the pentagon spokesman lieutenant colonel kone faulkner said the pentagon quote continues to press pakistan to indiscriminately target all terrorist groups unquote but he mentioned two groups in particular that is the kani network which operates out of safe havens in pakistan according to the us government and the kani network targets

both the u.s. and coalition soldiers in afghanistan as well as civilians in that country and also and also he mentioned lashkar e tayyiba which is a group an armed group operating in the disputed of province of kashmir which is controlled by india and. is opposed to indian control of mir now the trump administration has early and often made its displeasure with islamabad clear president donald trump earlier this year said that years and years of support from washington to islam about had been repaid only with lies and deceit his words and earlier this year the u.s. congress voted to cut more money from the the military aid program for for pakistan so now the total cut given this new number which was announced today

by the pentagon amounts to eight hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan certainly something that is going to put some pressure on that new government in islamabad headed by a new prime minister imran khan. but the an update on the u.s. position to cat aid to pakistan thank you. the newly appointed u.s. representative to syria james jeffrey is making its first trip to the region stopping at israel jordan and turkey but his visit comes aspect elation is growing that russia and syria are planning a military offensive and it live the u.n. has warned that an all out attack on the rebel how province cost many civilian deaths and even further displacement stephanie decker has the latest from an attack which is near the turkey syria border what you're looking at is the province and those tents are just a small part of almost eight hundred thousand people syrians who've been internally

displaced in their own country these tents have been here for years and also there is a feeling that no one's going to be able to go home any time soon the concern now is of this looming offensive in a province turkey certainly doesn't want to have tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people trying to cross the border it says its borders will remain shut in this is also why it's heavily involved in negotiating behind the scenes with a group incited live the one mostly in charge. that is of course the group that was for me known as the nusra front believed to be linked to al qaida that russia and syria call terrorists and as of friday night turkey also added to the terror list a lot of political maneuvering going on what is clear is that the syrian government says it will take back the province it was kind of shape that is going to take place remains to be seen whether it's a limited offensive but of course the concern remains for the hundreds of thousands of civilians that remain within the province and there are very fearful now of this upcoming confrontation. and still unserious least three people have been killed in

a car bomb attack in the city of us us that's north of aleppo several others were wounded when the bomb went off in front of a mosque near a government building there are reports of two other car bombings in towns in the province. russia a key backer of syrian president bashar assad is holding a week of drills in the mediterranean sea it says the exercises will focus on anti air an anti submarine defense system a crime and spokesman says the drills are necessary because of quote aggressive and unfriendly attitudes towards moscow well russia has warned that diplomatic talks to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine are now impossible after the killing of a kremlin backed separatist leader on friday moscow has accused of killing alexander go in an explosion at a cafe in donetsk where we challenge has more details from moscow the motor about

exams as a caution here in the us come friday is certainly a significant event in this ongoing war leaders there are saying that it won't go unpunished and the speculation is at the moment that the bomb in the cafe was hidden in a lamp and detonated by mobile phone so there is a big question which is how this is going to affect the peace process for what it's worth in eastern ukraine now so a lover of the russian foreign minister says this is an open provocation saying that hindering implementation of the minsk agreements under current circumstances it is of course impossible to speak about coming meetings in the normandy formats as many european partners wanted now the minsk accords which was signed by merkel to me a putin and petro poroshenko amongst others is aimed at resolving the four years old war there it was not in particularly good shape before this killing

and it seems to be even worse shape now. still to come on this program a final farewell to republican senator john mccain but not from the u.s. president. we take a look at some of the documentaries pulling in the crowds at the venice film festival. how we got more blustery shadows fading that way down across southeastern parts of australia but they are in the process of sliding away and they're heading towards new zealand say things going downhill here well the weather front just making its way in there's a possibility of one or two spots of rain as we go on through the second half of the weekend but nothing too much to speak of cool enough fourteen cells is fragile eight at all save the city but twelve degrees that high in melbourne it will be

a touch form of that for a perth at around eighty degrees celsius come monday off name well maybe seventy top temperature here twenty six in allison it's bad getting into the mid teens at this stage for adelaide and also for sydney but notice the possibility welcome showers i suspect is that eastern side of new south wales not so welcome will be the blustery rain that will make its way towards the zenith here we go with i rarely a cloud which is fading towards the western side of the country eleven celsius in the heat of the day for christ church cool still as we go on into monday and you may will even see a little dusting of snow over the high ground over about four thousand meters so that particular present a little bit of a wintry feel for some meanwhile well it's sunshine and showers into southern parts of japan on sunday but rain increasing by the middle of the week.

this is life on the streets of. discovery of. become somewhat. of a plea. tiny. little princess party . at this time. saudi arabia. last month attack on

a bus carrying children was unjustified forty children were killed in the air strike and who controlled. the u.s. has to cut off all funding to the un agency which supports five million palestinian refugees the trumps administration says the agency is flawed. and the u.s. military says it's decided to cut three hundred million dollars of aid to pakistan accusing it of failing to take decisive action against on the region. the violence has broken out in the libyan capital tripoli once again this part a cease fire agreement in the city several days of fighting between rival armed groups has left almost forty people dead and more than one hundred others injured most of the casualties are thought to be civilians. head has the latest from tripoli. the situation is still very tense in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli with the renewed clashes between the seventh

infantry brigade from the city of the homeowner and its allies from the city of misrata on the one hand and arm of groups bad to by the bad. national accord government on the other hand we're getting reports from the battlefield in the southern suburbs of tripoli that the. bad government of national forces are losing ground for the other infantry seventh infantry brigade and its allies from the city of misrata now there is a state of panic among civilians especially with the random shelling because there's been a lot of rockets random rockets being fired at densely populated areas that targeted many houses and properties including a hotel in central tripoli the v.a. asian still being hold it in. port and all flights have been diverted to

the misrata put in the city of misrata now a joint statement has been issued by four countries the united states the united kingdom italy and france condemning this collision of violence in the libyan capital tripoli and warning that those behind the violent actions will be held accountable politicians across the political divide have come together to remember u.s. senator john mccain who died last week aged eighty one former presidents barack obama george w. bush and bill clinton were among the say attended the service in washington but the current incumbent of the white house donald trump was excluded as gabriel alexander explains. a farewell to a giant of american life a man who served his country in war and in politics for over a half century more than two thousand invited guests at the national cathedral at

the memorial service of senator john mccain. some of the most powerful people of american political life were present to pay their respects president donald trump was not there mccain's family did not invite him at the memorial service nobody spoke trump's name but it was hard to miss their repudiation of his politics while channeling mccain's spirit the america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great thanks so much of our politics a public life or public discourse can seem small and mean and petty it's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear john called on us to be bigger than that george w. bush spoke of mccain's courage perhaps above all john detested the abuse of power

could not abide bigots and swaggering despots it was something deep inside him that made him stand up for the little guy. just before forgotten people in forgotten places outside the cathedral people gathered to watch and listen to the memorial service any way they could there was deep respect for mccain i think he's a great politician an american hero and a great person and i think that democrats and republicans should emulate him a like mccain embodies that whole brotherhood of veterans. he's not just a military hero he's an american hero on sunday mccain will be buried at a small private funeral at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis maryland it will be the culmination of a week long celebration of the life and legacy of a man who will go down as one of america's most important political leaders of his

era gave rolls on to al-jazeera washington. pro and anti immigration protests have been held in the eastern german city of commits thousands of farai demonstrators gathered for a second time this week in the city left wing groups are also then counter-demonstrations the rallies follow they arrest of two asylum seekers as suspected of stabbing a german man to death last sunday about a thousand eight hundred police have been deployed to keep the peace between the rival groups. and a modern who was the stabbing victim the far right is exploiting his death by saying a german has been murdered it but he was ninety five just in people outside the city don't know that they've only heard a german this has to be published most people are just following and repeats what others say. will happen i used to seem a little worried that's even more is going to happen and that it heats up further it's not calming down and i don't think it will anytime soon more is going to

happen. one of the world's largest urban forests is in south africa but its future is threats and not by man but by beetle which is making its home in the capital city trees i meet a miller has more from johannesburg. with ten million trees johannesburg is regarded as one of the world's greenest cities but hundreds of thousands of trees could be under through it from a tiny beetle and the fungus it carries. across as. manmade forces under threat because of this. and you are not enough is being done from a. maybe a government or a city level at a local school tree surgeon julian or trying to stop the spread of the beatles which bore into trees the fungus that the beetle brings to the tree is actually clogging up in layman's terms of vascular system in the tree that's transporting

the water the nutrients up and down the tree so it interferes with that and it basically because the water neutrons can't pass through that affected area or that damaged area it the tree on the top dies back so it's basically starving the tree nearby and entire tree lined street has been infested sub africa's not the first country to be affected the beetle which originates in vietnam has already decimated treason israel and the united states now a south african company has developed what it says is the world's first effective treatment it's a combination of a pesticide and an antifungal solution that penetrates the tree the company says while the treatment will be sprayed on to trees it's safe for the environment but this by killer still has to be approved before it can be used but that could take time and even if some trees are cut down the bug could spread if the trees are not properly disposed of after discovering that trees in his backyard had been affected

little fryer developed an app to monitor the spread of the brutal people cross south africa and the various interest groups have all been paying attention and collaborating. and certainly the people in the. i would space are working very aggressively to try to find solutions to institutions like the department of agriculture there were some really great people but they're under-resourced and they're also dealing with other crisis some say the in his station is reaching crisis point and up two hundred million trees could be lost in the next five years if nothing's done and experts are worried that the pissed if not stopped could hit farm crops next for me to miller zero johannesburg. a u.k. charities are urging people to stop using social media for a month warning that high usage can lead to increased anxiety and depression around three billion people that's about forty percent of the world's population is social

media with many spending more than an hour each day on different platforms so with so many hooks it can people really give it up for thirty days while a hayward went to find out. sometimes it feels like we are constantly connected liking posting uploading and updating social media is a big possible lives whether it's checking for the latest news on twitter watching the british prime minister dance or dog drive a speedboat i feel like most of us are addicted to it and if the people that say that they're not that just. the way that the campaign is in britain or people to take a break from personal social media for september or reduce usage to give them time to re-evaluate what makes us feel good and what makes a spell bad but the balance of the impacts for most young people from research we've done does of the name seem to be a negative one where actually young people are considered comparing themselves to the state budget idealism based real estate depictions of people's line globally

instagram has an estimated billion followers facebook more than two billion users and twitter hundreds of millions many of us around the world to have at least one social media accounts here in port said more than forty million people now subscribe and teenagers are the biggest consumers of social media some are on it for more than four hours a day scientists have warned about the dangers of becoming addicted to social media and link it to pull sleep and depression it is compulsive at the berry least giving it up then or at least turning off the traffic even for a few days isn't an easy prospect a commitment to get. to the kind of bring your. brain. such day here be burst out of the news posse for your boss see what a. little much time to be honest. face to disconnect some people might

need to be reminded that life is more than just you know showing other people what your life is closing. down social media for thirty days may give some people a much needed break campaigners say companies and individuals who use it need to think before they post about the impact the next click might top and he would al-jazeera in london. at the venice film festival movie premiers and their big name casa track most of the attention but this year crowds have been queuing up for the various documentaries on offer and reports their subject matter doesn't make easy viewing but he was left with the only good issue the studio. layout one could have might have said. the boy recounts how i saw beat his mother and how he dreams of taking revenge i says tomorrow the lost souls of mosul was

filmed before and after iraqi forces recaptured the city and it's a rare insight into the psychological damage done to young people by the conflict including the children of ice all fighters many of whom now live in camps like this one cherish the love for. the routine and that's the way the. mood. i mean they want to be marked here it's open so you know if you support one year after you is a condition in his life he just knew by your lonesome and war and return us how can you grow up you know the way documentaries like these are a tough watch but there's clearly an audience for them they don't offer a simple answers rather they raise questions about how societies can overcome years of unimaginable violence sick of the shirts commercial work to be in a facility really understand what war is it's people dying it's children dying and

this really makes you reflect you're not but it's really not look i'm shaking it's never happened to me in thirty years of coming here so well done to the directors he's on the shit in love with. another documentary attracting attention in venice is the latest film by cambodian director richie pan need to take on this this is him taking part in a ritual as he searches for infamy. about his own missing relatives victims of the one nine hundred seventy s. genocide under the camaro rouge which kills nearly two million people. it's a deeply poetic and personal film but the director says he hopes it will help his compatriots to confront the past in a most. diligent time wouldn't let main audience is young cambodians the generation born after the khmer rouge genocide because their parents didn't tell them what happened but their own cause their grandparents so what did each family was affected by the crimes. like the camaro rouge i saw has also relied on recruiting

children this film suggests bringing them back into society and ending the cycle of revenge will be a long process. that al-jazeera venice. and you can find much more on our website that's. well again here's a reminder for our main stories and al-jazeera saudi arabia the u.a.e. says last month's attack on a bus carrying children was unjustified forty children were killed in the airstrike and with a controlled few weeks ago the incident sparked widespread condemnation the coalition says those responsible will be held accountable alan fischer has more from djibouti . well it's interesting that just a few days ago they were insisting that this was a legitimate military operation if you look at the actual wording of what they're

seeing in this report they're not saying that there was a problem with killing children what they're seeing is that this attack should have taken place when it did because they were targeting who the leaders and you see the continue the intelligence pointed in that direction but those leaders that they did not present a threat to thirty local issue in forces and therefore the operation should have happened at the time the intelligence was passed to the pilots who fired the fatal missile but never got there in time and that is why we saw in that market fifty one people killed forty of them children. the u.s. has cut all funding to the u.n. agency which supports five million palestinian refugees nearly a third of u.n. refugee agency is funding comes from the u.s. and the trumpet ministrations says the agency is irredeemably flawed palestinian president mahmoud abbas calls the cuts a flagrant assault on palestinians the u.s.

military says it's decided to cut three hundred million dollars of aid to pakistan the money had been suspended by washington which is accused islamabad of failing to take decisive action against armed groups in the region the newly appointed u.s. representative to syria james jeffrey is making his first trip to the region his visit comes as speculation grows that russia and syria are planning a military offensive and it led a memorial service for senator john mccain has been held in washington d.c. former u.s. president barack obama and george w. bush led tributes to the career politician. well those are the headlines stay with us now for viewfinder latin america.

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